The Great Ganesha

It looked good, and I thought it was time for a change. It’s easier to read with the white background; it’s a little sober; its got a custom header; and it looks good overall. Think I’ll try it for a couple of days and see how it feels. If you guys have anything to say, [...]

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Folks, I’m in NYC this week, vacationing with family/networking/interviewing and won’t be blogging that regularly. You see, I’m stuck with dial-up where I’m staying. Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking – dial-up went out with bell bottoms and afros. And you’re right. But let me tell you, at this point, it’s looking so good, [...]

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Check out this month’s issue of Thirsty. It’s got my (brief) coverage of last month’s South Asian Film Festival in San Francisco here. I review Omkara (2006) and Sholay (1975). The Sholay one is not so much a review as a retrospective look into why it’s the phenomenon that it is. Can’t give you any [...]

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(Crossposted at Desicritics.org [link]) When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. -Edward [...]

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So I recently discovered that this blog is the ‘Featured Blog’ on WordPress.com’s ‘Offbeat’ tag page. It was for my ‘A Hindoo Madonna’ posting. Check out the post here. And check out the ‘Offbeat’ tag page here. Postscript: Not sure if people realize that I deliberately mis-spelled ‘hindoo’ to reflect the way our colonial lords [...]

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I am shocked. I mean, I don’t know what to say. I never thought I would get this far. So many people to thank for this: I’d like to thank my agent, my family, and of course, all of my little minions who surf the net for me and alert me whenever they find something [...]

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Apologies for the silence (ie, no posts for a while). I had a meeting with my Dissertation Committee last week. Sensing the impending defense, they suddenly panicked and decided to extract their final pound of flesh from me. Which means they dumped their final load of work on me, in a final attempt to extract [...]

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It’s been eons since I last posted. Been totally busy catering to the whims of American undergraduate brats. My course is almost over though, so that’s a relief. Begin another one in a few weeks, but will deal with that as it gets closer. Meanwhile, just wanted to point to Shivaji’s blog. He’s written up [...]

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It’s been a while since I posted, but since I read somewhere that blogging was defined as “talking to a brick wall,” I figured that it would be ok. Still, apologies to the regular viewer (note singular usage). I just got to know last week that my advisors are letting me defend in June/July sometime. [...]

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From the title of this blog, it should be apparent what this is about: Intellectual Masturbation. By which I mean, it’s really no different from other blogs. Just that it has a name with masturbation in it…

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